Celebrity Wallpapers, Biographies Information Jennifer Jason Leigh

Movie critic Rex Reed accurately described the characters in Jennifer Jason Leigh s gallery as a collection of sluts and nuts,” but the soft-spoken actress affectionately refers to the hookers, drug addicts and head cases she has played as a group of vulnerable, injured women she is thrilled to get to know on-screen, but grateful she doesn t encounter in real life. A versatile young actress, Leigh possesses intelligence and candor, which have made her one of the leading talents of her generation.
She first garnered critical attention as Casey Powell, the anorexic teenager in the TV-movie The Best Little Girl in the World (ABC, 1981), and made her feature film mark as a young teen who gets an abortion in Amy Heckerling s finely observed teen comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982).

Despite critical acclaim for Fast Times , it was eight years before Leigh s next notable role, as the prostitute Tralala in Ulrich Edel s grim adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr. s novel, Last Exit to Brooklyn (1990). Her uncompromising performance was followed by two more gritty films in which Leigh portrayed ostensibly fragile women with unsuspected reserves of strength: Miami Blues (1990), as another woman of ill repute; and Rush (1991), as a narcotics cop-turned-addict.